In July, the editors at NPR asked their website readers to nominate books for a top 100 list of the best science fiction and fantasy books ever written, and almost 5,000 people responded to the initial reader’s poll.
With the help of an expert panel, NPR narrowed the list down to 237 titles, and in early August, readers ranked their favorites from that group of finalists. When all was said and done, more than 60,000 ballots were cast for the final best-of list.
What follows is NPR’s Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books List, which was publicly released on NPR’s Web site (www.npr.org) yesterday. I’ve tacked the list of the other 137 finalists on to the end. Enjoy.
1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer by William Gibson
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Here are the other 137 titles that were finalists in the reader’s poll:
1632 by Eric Flint
The Acts Of Caine Series by Matthew Woodring Stover
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Armor by John Steakley
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Beggars In Spain by Nancy Kress
The Black Company Series by Glen Cook
The Black Jewels Series by Anne Bishop
Bridge Of Birds by Barry Hughart
The Callahan's Series by Spider Robinson
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Robert Heinlein
The Change Series by S.M. Stirling
Children Of God by Mary Doria Russell
The City And The City by China Mieville
City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton
The Company Wars by C.J. Cherryh
The Day of Triffids by John Wyndham
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
The Deed of Paksennarion Trilogy by Elizabeth Moon
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
The Deverry Cycle by Katharine Kerr
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
Don't Bite The Sun by Tanith Lee
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
Earth by David Brin
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
The Eisenhorn Omnibus by Dan Abnett
Eon by Greg Bear
The Eyes Of The Dragon by Stephen King
The Faded Sun Trilogy by C.J. Cherryh
Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser Series by Fritz Leiber
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
The Foreigner Series by C.J. Cherryh
The Gaea Trilogy by John Varley
The Gap Series by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Gate To Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gormenghast Triology by Mervyn Peake
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End of The World by Haruki Murakami
The Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl
The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison
House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
The Incarnations Of Immortality Series by Piers Anthony
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Kraken by China Mieville
Last Call by Tim Powers
The Last Coin by James P. Blaylock
The Last Herald Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lensman Series by E.E. Smith
The Liaden Universe Series by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
The Lies Of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb
Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Manifold Trilogy by Stephen Baxter
Memory And Dream by Charles de Lint
Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn Trilogy by Tad Williams
Mindkiller by Spider Robinson
Mordant's Need by Stephen Donaldson
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer
The Newsflesh Triology by Mira Grant
The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Novels Of The Company by Kage Baker
The Number Of The Beast by Robert Heinlein
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Otherland Tetralogy by Tad Williams
Parable Of The Sower by Octavia Butler
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Pride Of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
The Prince Of Nothing Trilogy by R. Scott Bakker
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Riverworld Series by Philip Jose Farmer
The Saga Of Pliocene Exile by Julian May
The Saga Of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The Sarantine Mosaic Series by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Scar by China Mieville
The Shattered Chain Trilogy by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Song for the Basilisk by Patricia McKillip
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Stainless Steel Rat Books by Harry Harrison
Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Stations Of The Tide by Michael Swanwick
Steel Beach by John Varley
The Swordspoint Trilogy by Ellen Kushner
The Tales of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card
The Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein
To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis
The Troy Trilogy by David Gemmell
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
The Uplift Saga by David Brin
The Valdemar Series by Mercedes Lackey
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
Venus On The Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout/Philip Jose Farmer
The Vlad Taltos Series by Steven Brust
The Vurt Trilogy by Jeff Noon
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
The Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon
In the end, how many of these books listed above have you had a chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.
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